This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor: Now a major BBC comedy-drama by Adam Kay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
Now A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. 'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior do ...Show more
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia - Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on) by Chris Stewart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
A special anniversary edition with a new chapter 25 years on.Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Spanish mountain farm to print. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn enough money to buy a se ...Show more
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society by Chris Stewart
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs | Series: Lemons Trilogy
The Good Life goes on at El Valero. Find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on local teenage mores; bluffs his way in art history to millionaire Bostonians; is rescued off a snowy peak by the Guardia Civil; and, joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society. You'll cringe w ...Show more
Two Mountains and a River: I Made a Resolve Not to Begin Climbing Until Assured by a Plague of Flies That Summer Had Really Come by H. W. TILMAN
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
H.W. Tilman¿s Two Mountains and a River picks up where Mount Everest1938 left off. In this instalment of adventures, Tilman and two Swissmountaineers set off for the Gilgit region of the Himalaya with theformidable objective of an attempt on the giant Rakaposhi (25,550 feet).However, this project was no ...Show more
Acknowledgments: Stories of Friends, Enemies and Figuring Things Out by Becky Lucas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
From critically acclaimed comedian Becky Lucas comes a funny, consoling and very candid collection of stories and essays about friends, enemies and figuring it out that establishes her as one of today's most original comedy writers. There's no such thing as a perfect life, but there are perfectly hilari ...Show more
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Payne Les Payne Tamara
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Ma ...Show more
Nothing But My Body by Tilly Lawless
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
'People always ask if I enjoy the sex I have with clients or if I have to fake it, as if the two are mutually exclusive and the interplay between them isn't more complex. In actuality, it depends. And I'm not sure what people are threatened by more - that I don't always love it, or that I don't always ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
The official biography of the award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate. 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 201 ...Show more
A Funny Life - The Autobiography by Michael McIntyre
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Michael McIntyre is a much-loved stand-up comedian, with sell-out international tours and the hugely popular television series Michael McIntyre’s Big Show and The Wheel. But the road to stardom was paved with near-disasters, as he hilariously recounts in his autobiography. Picking up where his first bo ...Show more
Bourdain: In Stories by Laurie Woolever
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has ...Show more
28: A memoir of football, addiction, art, masculinity and love by Brandon Jack
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoirs
A brutally honest memoir that completely rethinks what it means to be a man. 'Like Andre Agassi's Open, this is a transformative book; it is going to change our way of seeing' Malcolm Knox'Brandon Jack is a force for good' Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, hosts of the Shameless podcastContinually t ...Show more